PFO 04-14A: March 30, 2004
EU-North Korean Relations: No Effort Without Reason
By Ruediger Frank
PFO 04-14A: March 26, 2004
Drug Trafficking and North Korea: Issues for U.S. Policy
By Raphael F. Perl
PFO 04-14A: March 24, 2004
The Proliferation Security Initiative: The Legal Challenge
By Benjamin Friedman
PFO 04-14A: March 24, 2004
Curtailing North Korea's Illicit Activities
By Balbina Hwang
PFO 04-13A: March 19, 2004
North Korea's Economic Reforms and Security Intentions
By Victor Cha
PFO 04-12A: March 15, 2004
North Korea's Legacy of Missed Opportunities
By Mitchell Reiss
PFO 04-12A: March 5, 2004
Korean Civil Society Expects Forward-Looking Six-Party Talks Towards the Resolution of the Crisis Surrounding the Korean Peninsula
by Gyung-Lan Jung
PFO 04-11A: February 23, 2004
The Six-Party Talks: Keeping Diplomacy Alive
by Balbina Y. Hwang
PFO 04-10A: February 23, 2004
Prospects for the Second Round of Six-Party Talks: The Role of South Korea
by Cheong Wooksik
PFO 04-09A: March 12, 2004
The Reality Behind South Korea-US Alliance
Koo Kab-woo
PFO 04-09A: March 12, 2004
The Reality Behind South Korea-US Alliance
By Koo Kab-woo
This essay is by Professor Koo Kab-woo from Kyungnam University. Koo argues that the intervention for dismantling the unbalanced South Korea-US alliance is essential and could be done through the solidarity of the South Korean civil society with the civil society in other East Asian countries. East Asia must be re-discovered as a new space for action. Changing the historical structure of global politics in East Asia can only be possible with the intervention of the civil society
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PFO 04-08A: February 5, 2004
Violence, Legitimacy and the Future of Japanese and American Multilateralism
By Yoshikazu Sakamoto
The essay below is by Yoshikazu Sakamoto who is Professor Emeritus at Tokyo University. Sakamoto argues that the United States occupation of Iraq is not true democratization. Democracy in Iraq will only take root through autonomous opposition to the occupation. Postwar democracy in Japan was not a direct consequence of democratization from above but through spontaneous opposition to the policy of the anti-communist occupation force. The administrations of the U.S. and Japan need to learn from this paradoxical lesson.
This is a slightly revised version of the article appeared in The Japan Times, January 1, 2004.
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PFO 04-07A: February 11, 2004
The Multilateral Mantra And North Korea
Peter Hayes
PFO 04-06A: February 11, 2004
North Korean Political Stability in Play with Enormous Implications for South Korea
Marcus Noland
PFO 04-05A: February 11, 2004
Providing Security Assurances to North Korea
Peter Hayes
PFO 04-04A: February 6, 2004
Requisites for Resolving the Nuclear Issue
Ambassador Li Gun
PFO 04-03A: February 5, 2004
Don't Misunderstand Firing of South Korean Foreign Minister
Brent Choi
In this brief essay, Brent Choi, North Korea specialist for the Joongang Daily, argues that the recent dismissal of South Korean Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Yoon Young-kwan has been grossly misinterpreted by the U.S. media as an outgrowth of the struggle between pro-U.S. and anti-U.S. factions within the Roh administration. Instead, Yoon's dismissal must be interpreted through the socio-cultural prism of South Korea's bureaucratic society.
The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the Nautilus Institute. Readers should note that Nautilus seeks a diversity of views and opinions on contentious topics in order to identify common ground.
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PFO 04-02A: February 3, 2004
The Six-Party Talks Can Succeed
Leon Sigal
PFO 04-01A: January 23, 2004
The North Korea Deadlock: A Report from the Region
Briefing by Charles Pritchard
PFO 03-54A: December 25, 2003
Giving Lip Service with an Attitude: North Korea's China Debate
Alexandre Mansourov
PFO 03-53A: December 23, 2003
North Korea: A Phased Negotiation Strategy
Report from the International Crisis Group
PFO 03-52A: December 18, 2003
Seven Steps To Solve the North Korean Nuclear Problem
Peter Hayes
PFO 03-51A: December 12, 2003
North Korea - New Lessons Learned
Philip W. Yun
PFO 03-50A: December 11, 2003
The End of Socialism and a Wedding Gift for the Groom? The True Meaning of the Military First Policy
Ruediger Frank
PFO 03-49A: December 9, 2003
Negotiating with the North
Leon V. Sigal
PFO 03-48A: December 5, 2003
The Reduction of Tension in Korea Vol. I
Peter W. Colm, Rosemary Hayes, Karl F. Spielmann, Nathan N. White Institute for Defense Analysis June 1972
Released under the US Freedom of Information Act to Nautilus Institute.
PFO 03-47A: December 3, 2003
Assessing the Six Party Talks: CSCAP North Pacific Working Group
Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Robert Bedeski, Council of Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific
PFO 03-46A: November 25, 2003
Excerpts on North Korea from the U.S. Democratic Candidates for President Debate in Iowa
PFO 03-45A: November 21, 2003
Seoul's Secret Success
Aidan Foster-Carter
In his essay, Aidan Foster-Carter, honorary senior research fellow in sociology and modern Korea at Leeds University in England, asserts that the numbers regarding North Korean trade as reported by South Korea's Korea Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy are distorted. On the surface, it appears Japan and China are North Korea's main market, but closer scrutiny of the number reveals how much inter-Korean trade is in fact transpiring. In the first half of 2003, North-South Korean trade totaled US $269 million, comprising $112 million in Northern exports and $157 million in imports. South Korea is well on track to gain the pole position of Pyongyang's top market, and second place in trade overall. So why obfuscate it?
The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the Nautilus Institute. Readers should note that Nautilus seeks a diversity of views and opinions on contentious topics in order to identify common ground.
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PFO 03-44A: November 7, 2003
The North Korean Nuclear Challenge And American Interests: Getting The Priorities Right
Avery Goldstein
The paper below is by Avery Goldstein, Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania and Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. Goldstein argues that while an agreement guaranteeing a "nuclear-free" North Korea would be desirable for the United States, there remain other strategic outcomes that fall short of that goal, but may nonetheless prove advantageous to US interests in reducing the risk of the spread of nuclear materials.
The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the Nautilus Institute. Readers should note that Nautilus seeks a diversity of views and opinions on contentious topics in order to identify common ground.
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PFO 03-43A: October 2003
Bush's Bipolar Disorder and the Looming Failure of Multilateral Talks With North Korea
Peter Hayes
Peter Hayes, Executive Director for the Nautilus Institute, writes that in the mid-1990s, Ukraine-which had possession of approximately 1,900 former Soviet nuclear warheads-agreed to get rid of them all in exchange for security assurances, economic support, and energy assistance. Hayes argues that this model could be applied to North Korea as well. Through energy assistance, economic aid, and security guarantees, China, Russia, South Korea, and the United States could cooperatively engage North Korea in exchange for accelerated and verified dismantlement of Pyongyang's nuclear capability.
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This essay was originally published in the October 2003 issue of Arms Control Today: (http://www.armscontrol.org/act/2003_10/Hayes_10.asp).
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